Tag: Desiree Akhavan
Interview: Chloë Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane, Emily Skeggs & Melanie Ehrlich – The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The Miseducation of Cameron Post—Desiree Akhvan’s tender tale set in a gay conversion therapy camp—took home the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance ’18. The...
Interview: Desiree Akhavan & Emily M. Danforth – The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Director Desiree Akhavan’s tender and funny second feature The Miseducation of Cameron Post won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance ’18. Based on Emily...
Video: Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Moving from quirky indie with a pulse in Appropriate Behavior (one of our favroite Sundance discoveries back in 2014) to a witty ensemble piece with...
Top 50 Future TV Binge List: Cannes Vets Coen Bros., Refn & Haneke Top Inaugural Chart
With TV being the new orange, it's becoming increasing difficult to keep tabs on what our filmmaker favorite are up to and while we...
2018 Tribeca Film Fest’s Spotlight Narrative includes: Emma Forrest, Marianna Palka, Award Winners Sebastian Lelio & Desiree Akhavan
Film items we've seen at TIFF back in September in Haifaa Al Mansour's Mary Shelley and Sebastian Lelio's Disobedience, to Sundance's top prize winner...
Sundance 2018: Madeline’s Madeline Helena Howard Leads our Top 10 New Faces
Last week we looked at the impressive class of new voices who made a noticeable mark at Sundance '18, and now we go in...
Sundance 2018: The Year of Youth in Revolt
There’s an old adage in filmmaking that goes something like: ‘never work with kids or animals.’ This year’s Sundance Film Festival is a direct...
Sundance ’18: Morano, Silva, Akhavan & Boots Riley Among U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections
Last year's section of sixteen included such gems as Beach Rats (Directing Award), Brigsby Bear, Ingrid Goes West (Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award), Golden Exits...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post
One of the choice multi-tasker discoveries of 2014 Sundance edition both behind, and in-front of the camera, Desiree Akhavan recently divulged (to IndieWIRE) just...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Patrick Brice’s Creep 2
We had an inkling that Patrick Brice would shore up at Sundance back in 2015, but we hadn't the faintest idea that The Overnight would be the huge...
“Diary of a Teenage Girl” & “Carol” Lead 2015 Gotham Award Noms
Nabbing Best Actress, Screenplay, Breakthrough Director and Feature noms, Marielle Heller's Diary of a Teenage Girl leads all Gotham Award nominations with four, while...
Best of Fest: Sundance 2014’s Top 20 New Voices (10-1)
Continued from yesterday's countdown....
20. Tessa Louise-Salome (Mr. Leos Carax)
19. Janicza Bravo (Gregory Goes Boom)
18. Michael Rossato-Bennett (Alive Inside)
17. Andrew Droz Palermo & Tracy Droz...
Best of Fest: Sundance 2014′s Top 10 New Faces
They range in age, amount of screen time, supporting or principle characters, and have previous (television work, stage and or bit parts in Hollywood/Indiewood...
Sundance 2014: Alex Ross Perry, Michael Tully, Tim Sutton, Sydney Freeland & Mark Jackson Among Stellar Class of 11 NEXT Features
Rolling out it's fifth edition and growing beyond just Park City (Los Angeles hosted a summer event this year) the NEXT section has grown...